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SATURDAY MOUSING. Feb. <i.
Bolling MiH and Wall Factory.
We arc glad to learn that the work of
rebuilding the Rolling Mill and making a
Nail Factory in this city will commence in
a few days.
The new Company has purchased the
old Rolling Mill property, and also the land
lying between that and the river, and it is
expected to work on a large scale. The en
terprise is one of great importance to, this
town and surrounding country, and will, in
all probability, he the fore-runner of other
manufactories of iron. The officers or the
new Company are :
II M Anderson, President.
Jas. Noble, Sr., Treisurer.
G W Neff, Secretary.
John Neff I
John Hughes, r Directors.
Samuel Noble, )
A Beautiful Drug Store.
Col. J. G. Yciser and Thos. H. Cuyler
have formed a copartnership and gone into
the drug business in this city
They have had one of the stores in the
Shorter Block fitted up expressly for the
business, and we are sure that we speak
within the bounds of truth when we state
that it is one of the prettiest drug stores in
the Slate. Their furniture is all new, their
drugs and medicines entirely fresh, and
with Col. Yeiser’s long experience in the
business, and extensive acquaintance if they
do not do a large business, it will be “ a cu
rious thing to Jonas.”
Mr. Cuyler has also been in the business
liuco the war, at Tuskegee, Ala., :s an adept
in the trade, and an accomplished gentle-
man. Wo would advise our friends, and
especially the ladies, if they wish to see a
beautiful etore. or to purchase fancy or sta
ple articles in the drug line, to give them a
A Good Speech
We publish to-day the exoelleut speech
of Maj. J.T. Burns, Senator from this Dis
trict, in opposition to the payment of the
l’eufield claim. We notice the Major has
acquired the soubriquet of “the Patrick
Ileury of the Senate.” We hope he may
equal the father of American oratory, in
his powers of eloquence in the cause of
truth and justice.
Cotton Market.
The market was considerably excited yes-
terday, prices ranging from 27 to 28 cts.
Corn is in demand at 90 to 95 cents.
Wheat $2 00 to 82 10.
Surely these are flush times for planters.
Edwin Batei & Co., Charleston.
Most of our old merchants are acquainted
with Edwin Bates who did a wholesale
clothing trade before the war. His firm
now deal in Dry Goods and clothing. It is
a No. 1 House and we cheerfully recom
mend them to parties trading at Charleston.
See Adv.
Family Groceris.—11. C. Pendleton
of
has just received a large fresh supply
Family Groceries. Sueli at Sugar, Coffee,
Spices, Dried Fruts, Pickles, Rice, Homony’
&c-&c. Give him a call two Doors above
tta Bunk.
OllABGEC WITII MURDEH. J. E. CiUTIB
■-Charged with having murdered a man
ay the name of Kipkennou, in Paulding
Co. last August, was arrested a few days
since iu Selma, brought hero Tuesday
. SK and left this city Friday Morning
m Charge of the Sheriff of Paulding Co.
of *®" A new perfume yclept “Loyal balm
oi a thousand niggers,” is advertised in an
sage. The inventor claimsthat it wat
aautactured expressly for parties desiring
^removal of their political disabilities.
“ Posing boots, by steam, twenty
boot*’ ° r tW ° hundred and forty pairs ot
Hotlki'n ^ USU! d day’s work. 0»e man in
ei-htv l$°“> Massachusetts, has pegged
H°e one? ***** ^ 982 *>onte in two days
round in ’S? fort J e! ght boots, twice
hoot, in a rri i t'” milrat *“; “nd did one
a trial of speed) ia fchirtcon
Arrived at her wharf on the 4th, bring
ing the following :
PASSENGERS.
Mr. Okeef, W T J Woodward, Col. W
5 Cothran, Mrs. Walden, Miss Bradford, T
F J Jeffries, Jesse Bryant, W Wattermire,
C P Morton, 7 sterage passengers.
CONSIGNEES.
Maguire, Cothran & Co., Berrys & Co.,
W S Cothran, Son & Co , Hopkins, Dwight
6 Trowbridge, W Wadsworth, Williams &
Co.i JM Elliott & Co., Fishel & Bras JH
Duke, R T Hargrove, S N Noble.
FREIGHT.
140 bales'of cotton, 150 bushels of wheat,
25 sacks of fruit,4700 feet of lumber, 50
sacks of cotton seed.
Through Ticket Office.
On the first instant, J. W - Stillwell Agent
Borne Kail Boad, commenced selling though
tickets to the following places: Atlanta,
Macon, Savannah, . Augusta, Charleston,
Collumbia, Wilmington, Dal tor, Knoxville,
Bristol, Lynchburg, Bichmoud, Washing,
ton, Batilmore, Philadelphia, New York,
Chattanooga, Nashville, Louisville and Cin-
cinatti.
Such an office has long been needed in
our city, and we are glad that Col. Cothran
has succeeded in making this arrangement.
—Commercial.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Wednesday, Feb. 3,1869.
A House bill to pay the members three-
fourths the money due them, passed.
The discussion of the bill to pay Penfield
for arms, was resumed and after considera
ble discussion, was lost.
Those voting to pay the claim of Mr.
Penfield were: Messrs. Griffin, Hunger-
ford, Jordan, McWhorter, Nuunally, Sher
man, Smith, of the 7th, Smith of the 39th,
Speer, and Mr. President —10.
Those voting against paying the claim were:
Messrs. Adkins, Anderson, Bowers, Brock,
Burns, Candler, Corbott, Dickey, Fain,
Gignilliatt, Graham, Harris, Holcombe,
Jones, Lester, McArthur, McCutchen,
Moore, Nosbett, Wellborn, and Winn—21.
The Governor returned a bill for drawing
jury in Chatham county, with his veto.
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF BEPBESENTATIVE3.
An effort was made to reconsider the vote
to prohibit hunting on the lands of another
but failed. Most of the day was spent dis
daining the resolution for the appointment
of a committee to visit Washington. The
Democratic side of the House generally op
pose it. Without coming to a vote, the
House adjourned.
Thubsday, Feb. 4th
The action in the Penfield claim was re
considered, and the bill laid on the table for
the present.
An attempt to pass the Chatham county
bill for drawing juries over the Governor’s
veto, failed.
Mr. Welbom’s resolution to send a com
mittee to Washington, was withdrawn.
A resolution was referred to finance com
mittee, instructing the Governor to have a
medal of Georgia gold prepared for George
Peabody for his donations for education in
the State.
Bills read first and second time :
A bill to incorporate Georgia Male and
Female Life Insurance Company. Bead
third time and passed. Senate adjourned.
The discussion of the question of the
eligibility of negroes was resumed, and
Price’s resolutions, referring the question
to the courts, adopted. Without further im-
portaut action, the House adjourned.
Little Things in Farming.
The whole success of a farmer hinges up
on timely attention to little things. Thus
mainly makes the difference between thrift
and poverty. The philosophy of success is
expressed in the old adage: “For want of
a nail a shoe was lostj for want of a shoe a
horse was lost; for want of a horse a man
was lost.” It is a little thing to keep ac
counts of the pecuniary transactions on ths
farm. A half hour Saturday evening
would enable farmers to know just how they
stand with the world. Yet we suspect half
the men who cultivate the soil never make
an entry in a book; and for want of this ac
counts ran up fearfully at the store, and
many articles of luxury are purchased, for
which they are unable to pay at the close
of the year. Debts accumulate, the .farm
is mortagSd, and finally lost for the want of
a little paper and ink. It is a little thing
to put up a tool in its place, when r ot in use,
yet many have no tool house, or place of
shelter for any ■ implement or vehicle.—.
Things are left where they were last used—:
the'plow in the field, the cart in the. yard,
the ohains in the stable, the harness in the
wood house, the axe at the wood pile, and
the rakes at the corn crib. Many do not
even house the expensive implements they
have bought; and reapers and threshers are
treated like old plows and harrows. The
parts made of steel and iron gr ow rusty, and
the wood decays.
A machine that is good for thirty years,
with proper care, is used .up in five by
abuse. It is a very little thing to turn a
nut that is loo6e, yet for the want of the
tightening the nut if lost, the bolt comes
out, and loaded wagon breaks down on the
way to market, and a whole day for man
and team is lost. It-is a little thing to koep
a horse properly groomed, yet for want ol
clean fetlocks, the skin cracks and the horse
is lame, and the owner loses the, use of him
for weeks or months. ^Ventilation is a small
affair, yet for the want of it the health of
stock in' stables suffers severely, and disease
sets. in.. It is a small affair to provide good
seed at the beginning of the year, hut the
whole success of the seasons depends upon
it. It is an easy thing to deal fairly with
your neighbors, and make a- name that is
better than precious ointment. - Many
cheat on small occasions, do not get what
they sell, and get a reputation for meaner*
that stands in the way of their success.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
SPEECH
MAJOR J. T. BURNS
On motion to adopt the Report of . .
Committee on Claim of —
Committee
G. H. Penfield.
Delivered Iu Senate, February 1st.
Mr. BURNS had hoped that his motion
to lay the report on the table till the House
acted would prevail, and auy debate ou the
subject be cut off. He thought it was not
legitimately before the Senate, therefore
he made the motion he did. But the friends
of the measure had forced this discussion,
and he proposed to meet it fairly. He op
posed adopting the report of the committee
on three grounds, lit. Because the Con
vention of 1864, under tl.e duress, of gov
ernmental jmwer, had repudiated- alF claims
for material furuished or intended to aid
the rebellion. 2d. Because the Conven
tion of 1867-8 had ratified the repudiation
by solemn ordinance. 3d. Because the
courts of the United States, in all their de
cisions. have sustained this repudiation.
He had taken a solemn oath to support
the Constitution of the State of Georgia
and wishing to maintain that aath invio
late, he could not vote to adopt the report
the committee. Before the Corfven.-
tion of 1865 attempted to sully the fair
name of Georgia, she, on almost bended
knee, supplicated the Government not to
force repudiaion upon her. In October,
1865, Piovisional Govenor James John
son telegraphed Seward in the following
language: “We are pressed on the war debt;
what should the Convention do?” He al
so sent the following to President John-
aon:“ We need some aid to reject the war
debt; send me some word on the subject;
what shonld the Convention do?” '
Secretary Seward replied, October 29th,
1865, as follows; “The President of the
United States cannot recoguize the people
of any State as having resumed the rela
tions of loyalty to the Union that admits
as legal obligations, contracts or debts,
created on them to promote the war of the
rebellion.” President Johnson replied
under the same date: “The people of
Georgia should not hesitate one single mo
ment repudiating every single dollar of
debt created for the purpose of aiding the
rebellion against the government of the
United States. It will not do to levy and
collect taxes from a State and people that
are loyal and in the Union to pay a debt
that was created to aid in taking them out,
thereby subverting the Constitution of the
United States. * *' * * It
should at once be made known at home or
abroad that, no debt contracted for the pur
pose of dissolving the'Union of the States,
can or will be paid by taxes levied on the
people for such purposes,”
By ordinance of the Convention of 1865,
it was declared “That all State securities
and liabilities of indebtedness, of what
evercharacter, that may have been created
by the State to aid in the prosecution, di
rectly or indirectly, of the war against the
United States of America, be and the
same are hereby declared null and void.”
Smith (7th.) Does this affect the legis
lation of 1860 ?
It does. On page 135, of the journal of
that Convention, the ordinance declares that
“the Legislature is hereby forever prohibi
ted from in any way acknowledging or pay
ing said debt, or any part thereof, or for
passing any. law for that purpose, or to se
cure or ; provide for the said debts there
of, by, any appropriation of money, proper
ty, stocks, funds or assetts of any kind for
t'-at purposcL’’' The ■ honorable Senator
from the 7tbj‘says that if-Georgia now re
pudiates this claim, her fame will be soiled
forever. 'Sir when the “warrior’s flag took
its flight to greet the warrior’s soul” and we
surrendered onr arms, her honor as a sov
ereign State had forever fled, and she bow
ed to the behests of a higher power by re
pudiating all claims given in aid of the re
bellion. Mr. B. here read from- the Con
stitntion of 1867-68, page 17 and 37, sus
taining the acts of Convention of 1865 in
repudiation.
I am no advocate of repudiation, bnt it
has been done. I am no respector of per-
sons; but while I am debarred by law from
paying the just claims of widows and or
phans who hold war bonds of Georgia, I
shall not, because a man who lives North
holds similar claims, vote to pay him. It is
urgod that the claimant should be paid. I
cannot see.any difference as to persons un
der the law. The law makes no difference
as to who is the party.
I am, however, inclined to believe that
shonld-a man born on southern soil, and
who sympathized , with the rebellion, bring
» claim for guns manufactured in 1860, and
should this Senate vote to pay him, there
would be such a howl raised North, and in
our National Legislature, as would cause a
packing of carpet-bags by this Senate as
has not been seen since the Israelites left
Egypt. Oh, loyalty, what a jewell! You
make guns for the rebels to fire upon the
Stars and Stripes, to shoot to death the gal
lant defenders of the Union, and now be
cause’you are loyal, claim pay for the' guns
with which the bloody rebels did their work
ol' death. “This will make treason and re-
hellion odious.”
The Shylock who makes his money . from
the warm blood of the soldiers in gray and
blue, who cares nothing for who fall- by the
deadly discharge of his guns; who in his
thirst for money, forgets his flag, and fur
nishes arms alike to friend and foe, makes
p poor snow in my judgment in claiming
this'blood-money, because he ialoyall The.
war has passed with its blood and.its hor
rors Let the claims of him who placed
guns in the hands of both parties, regard
less of friend and, foes, die too. [I forgot
all such claims are dead, if we respect the
law.] I cannot give my consent to this
outrage. The widow and. the orphan who
held claims, much jmore equitable, would,
with aching hearts and streaming. eyes,
breathe a curse more fatal than ever fill
from .the prophet’s old- Let this claim, like
: the rest, given in aid of. the Lost - Cause,”
Temrin as a monument of tho cause for
which it is given, and let it find its res
ting place in- the same grave.
Hair Grafting.—One Innis, a. negro
barber in Jersey City, has made the treat
ment of premature bald heads » a special
study, and after a series of experiments has
demonstrated, it is said, the fact that hair
may be grafted into such a head and made
to grow. He takes hair from the head of
anothe# person, and examines it with a mi
croscope to racer tain if it-is perfect and
healthy. This ' hair he inserts into the
cavities of the scalp, and -secures it to its
■place by bancages which are allowed to re
main a few Mays until the hair takes
root. ,
A writer in the A,it-Slavery Standard
says he has seen the barber perform this
operation successfully.
From the Southern Cultivator.
Improving Land with Peas.
Sparta,Ga., April 4th, 1868.
You wish my experience in growing peas,
and turning thorn under whilst green.
The benefits -of growing grass crops,-|nd
burying them in the soil for the benefit of
Future crops, are too well understood to be
questioned by any one; but it has opened a
question In agricultural economy that has
not been settled so satisfactorily. The
English farmers formerly used a half ton
of groundhones per acre, to grow a single
epop, but they have found by dissolving
two hundred pounds of hones iu acid, at a
cost of filly per cent ou the price of the
hones, (making the whole cost equal to that
of three hundred lbs. of bones,) that it
will produce the sag) 6 effect at _an outlay
of only thirty-per cent on. that of the for^
mer mode—the latter, rnethbl giving them
the means of returning-thq same amount
of manure to the land next yesr. as the for-
nier did, to producing the same amount of
hay, turnips and other fqrage .to feed
stock.
Now, admitting that it will pay to'grow
peas and clover, to be turned under as fer
tilizers, the following questions arise:
At- what time should they be turned un
der, to insure the greatest benefit ? Would
it pay better to feed them off the land
than to cover them with a plow, and why
do they lose by drying before being turned
under? Here again the question of solu
ble and insoluble manures is involved,
have always taken the side of soluble man
ures as being the most economical. Dry
peavines and clover will soon become solu—
* I will give yon my practice. It is one
that will nay, although I will not say that
that will pay, although
it is the best First keep your land in
good heart; let the field that you intend to
sow peas on remain fallow, until you lay by
your corn—say from the 1st to the 20th of
July. Yon will then have a large growth
of green weeds to turn under. Start your
teams with good torn ploughs, running off
the land as nearly level as you can, and go
round and round until the land or cat is
finished. Start the pea dropper after every
third plough, and the hand with the mat
ure after the pea dropper. Drop the man
ure within four inches of the peas. If
you find the peas will make from seven to
fifteen bushels per acre, turn stock in upon
them, placing salt in places over the field,
to cause the most of the manure to be drop
ped on the field. Then invest all the pro
fit arising from feeding stock on the field in
bone3 and Peruvian guano for the next erop r
and you will find this system will pay. I
have adopted it with both wheatand cotton,
with good success. If the peas fail to fruit,
turn them under whilst green.-
Second Plan—Plant peas the first of
April, same as above: turn under before
the stems become very woody, and plant
manure a second crop at the same time that
you are turning under the first crop of
vines, and treat the second crop as you did
the first. The true policy is to secure the
greatest amount of soluble vegetable mold
you can accumulate with the least cost.
Ycry truly yours,
-David Diokoow. -
N. B.—I prefer peas planted and culti
vated on a level, both for the land and
crop, find for a sowing of small grain after
the pea crop.
MURDERED.
Another Victim of Clayton’s Blood
-hounds,
From the Memphis Appeal, Jan. 29th.
The crowing deed has heen done. An
other heart-sickening crime has been added
to the long and bloody list already charg
ed to the account of the infamous and de
testable scoundrel and murderer that we
apathecally have allowed to march around
onr streets, with all the insolence bravado
of royally, when he ought to have been in
ohains.
We have already made onr readers fa-
milliar with the sickening details of the
murderer of Harney, McAllister and Ticer-
They were taken out without even a sem
blance of a trial, law 01 right, and morder
dered. Two other prisoners were repre
sented as being held in the jail at Marion—
Wafford and Crump. After having held
and tortured these two until no more cold
be extorted from them, either in money,
gift or otherwise, it was a day or two ago
determined that Wafford, against whom
nothing coaid be foand, but who would, it
turned loose, be a witness against them,
must die.
In order that a semblance of law might
be had as an excase for the bloody deed, a
“court-martial,” or military commission was
summond from among the - orowd, who were
to be at oace jndges, accusers, witnesses,
all. They were negroes, all of- them—or
lower in the scale- of humanity—and most
of them had. engaged in every robbery,
rape and murder that had been committed
in the county. Few or. none of them
could read, and all had the death of the
victim nearest their heart, as a measure ne
cessary to their own personal safely.
God knows what for, or by. what _sem=
blanceof trial, but failing in obtaining-
their demands, they .determined that Waf
ford should die, and they executed the sen
tence; as we stated was the rumor yesterday,
on Wednesday.
Now that the prisoners, or at least- Waf
ford, is beyond reach of harm from them,
we assert that a proposal was made, to gen
tlemen in this city, by the officers command
ing at-Marion, to release Wafford on pay
ment of two thousand dollars. . . .
This finishes the drams for the present,
but justso sure as God exists, we live to see
this villain and suborner of villains hunted
down and punished for these infamies.—
The corse of blood is upon him and them,
and will surely work its own vengeance.
While this scoundrel was in the oily he
was surrounded. by an army of police and
detectives, kindly furnished him at the in
stigation of a few hypocritical. knaves who
affected to believe that an attempt would
be made on his life. We know that no
such attempt was contemplated, and so did
those who affected otherwise. He was
visited, we are told, by his organ in the
city, by “loyalists,” who went out of frend-
ship and admiration, and “Kuklnx” and
rebels, who -went oat of fear and cring
ing.
As on illustration of his moral character,
and to show how thoroughly he was identi
fied with the Plymouth, we Bock hypocrit
ical Puritanism, we are told that on Sun
day, while his parson, or the chaplain of
his staff, as he is grandileqncntly called,
was praying in his loudest and most unc
tions manner—literaily wresting with the
Lord—to punish the d—d rebels and bless
and malce fici\ hit chosen servant Clayton
that worthy.wa3 playing, pocket, in the ne
groes’ cabin of thoDesare.
' 40"Mr. Cliarlos Wingfield, a highly re
spected citizen of Wilkes county, died near
Washington, last week.
Washington, Feb. 4.—In the Supreme
Court yesterday, the City of New Orleans
vs. New York Mail Steamship Company was
continued to next term.
The President has taken no steps in re
gard toDr. Mudd’s pardon, beyond direct
ing the Attorney General to hasten his re»
port on the case. Mudd’s early release how
ever, is regarded certain.
Senate.—A number of hills were intro
duced,including the grant of alternate sen-
tions of land to the New Orleans and Selma
BaiIroad,and rebewing'land grants to Ala
bama.
House.—The Bcconstructisn Committee
has postponed its report on Missis
sippi until -the arrival of ex-Governor
Brown.'-
The sub-committce reported one hundred
and fifty names for removal of political dis
abilities, not including any Judges or district
attorneys.
The report on the Louisiana election con-
tostisnotyetready._„ - • .
NSSffiLLE, Feb. 4.—Speaker Bichards
has vacated the Chair pending the investi
gations charging him with corruption
in connection with the missing school
funds.
London, Feb. 4.—A dispatch from Ath
ens gives unexpected intelligence.
The Greek ministers refused to sign the
protocol, and have tendered their- -resigna-
tian to the King.
Paris, Feb. 4.—The insurrection among
the wild tribes of Algeria lias been suppress
ed. - '
Memphis, Feb. 4.—Befogees from Crit
tenden county, Arkansas,report that the
militia had hung a planter,and were com
mitting all kinds of vandalism.
A planter was killedaud robbed six miles
from Little Bock.
Telegraphic Markets.
New York, Feb. 4.—Stocks steady,
Money easy at 7. Exchange 9}. Gold 1
351. Wheat doll and heavy. Corn doll and
lc lower. Pork dull;new mess 32 25. Steam
lard lieavy;b arrels 20}a20}. Cotton firmer
at 301- Turpentine 56}a57. Bonn dull at
2 55a2 60. Freights quiet.
Liverpool, Feb. 4. afternoon.—Cotton
active; uplands, spot 12}d, afloat same; Or
leans 12 fd.
HUMORS OF ADVERTISING.
The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate is the
medium through which the faithful Sarah
exposes the vices of her faithless swain, in
the following words: -
To the Public.—Whereas, my hniband,
Edward H. Jones, has falsely advertised
that I have left his bed and beard, and that
he will pay no debts of my contracting, ic.,
this is to inform the public that the afore
said Edward H. Jones has neither bed nor
board for me to leave, he having been liv
ing at the expense of my father. Underpre
tence of procuring money to pay his way
to Birmingham, Conn., he borrowed a dol
lar of my father, and with that paid for
this lying advertisement against me, and
even after that dastardly act, he took all
the money I had, and borrowed every cent
in my mothers -possession and left the
town.
For the past three months he has been
kept-from nakedness and starvation by the
exertions of myself and relatives: ha squan
dered in dissipation all the money his
born laziness would allow him to earn.
The scamp need not have advertised
that he would pay no debts of my contract
ing, for the public well know that he wonld
not pay even his own.
He is a lazy, ungrateful, loafing scoun
drel—not content with living at the ex
pense of my relatives and borrowing their
money, he publishes an outrageous lie. His
bed and board! indeed—if left to himself,
his bed would be nothing but a board, and
I should not be much surprised if the bed
he dies in were made of boards with
strong cross-beam overhead.
Sarah A. Jones.
As Good aa Acquitted.
Atlanta, February 2.—-The Finance
Committee, composed of two Democrats
and one Bepnblican, appointed to investi-
gate the charges of the State Treasurer
against Governor Bollock, of unlawful use
of State fnnds, issue the followed card:
“To the Public.—We, the undersign
ed. Sub-Committee of the Finance Com
mittee, appointed to investigate the charge
made to the Treasurer against the Got.
ernor, hope that you will not form your
opinions hastily. We are investigating
the whole matter thoroughly. We do not
doubt, from evidence now before us, that
Governor Bullock has acted with the stric
test integrity. The only question is as to
his discretion, which is being folly investi
gated. We are induced to make this re
quest because of the hasty oourse of the
Treasurer in making public certain com
munications.
[Signed]
“H. Morgan,
“W. B. Bell,
“C. C. (/LEGHORN,
A Baloon Voyaoz to Europe.—The
notion of an serial voyage to Europe has
been revived by M. Chevalier, a celebrated
French coronaut.who has jost arrived in
New York: He proposes starting from
New York next April or May. M. Cheva
lier, we are told, once made the journey
from Paris to the Bossian frontier, a dis
tance of over seven hundred miles, in less
than five hours. Upon another occasion,
he crossed St. George’s Channel from Dub
lin, and has accomplished, without injury,
several ascensions in France and England.
The airship m which the experiment is to
be attempted is called. L’Esperance. Its
height is ninety-five feet, its diameter one
hnndred and fifty feet, and it requires ona
hundred end twenty thousand cubic feet of
gas to iefiate it Attached to the ship is an
enclosed car capable of carrying abeut fifty
persons, with provisions for a ten days’ voy
age. M. Chevalier contemplates extending
invitations to several members of the press
to accompany him. At a late meeting of
the Democrat editorial corps, it was resolv
ed, with remarkable unanimity, that this
paper will not be represented on the voy
age.—Louisville Dan.
•9*1110 Hearth & None is the new weekly
started by Fettengill, Bates Jc Co., 33 Park
Bow, N. Y. Editors—Donald G. Mitehell
(Iko Marvel,) and Harriet Beecher Stowe
—names so well known as to leave no donbt
that the new enterprise must prove eenc-
cess. It is gotten up somewhat after the
fashion of Harper’s Weekly, hut in ell es
sential particulars it is superior to that
widely-known publication. Price 94 n
year.—Exchange.
i$£.A Minister in Minneeotn has been
presented with a watch guard composed of
hair, every lady in the congregation having
plucked ont one hair as a contribu
tion.
Come,boys, I have something to tell you: .
Come near,I would whisper it low:
You are thinking of leaving the homestead,
Don’t be in a hurry to go.
The city has many attractions,
Bnt think ofthevicesand sins; _ . -
When once in the vortex of fashion,
How soon the course -downward begins.
You talk of the mines of Australia—
They’ve wealth in gold without doubt;
But, ah! there is golden the -farm,boys,
If only you’ll shovel it out;
The mercantile life is a hazard,
The goods are first high and - then low;
Better risk the old-farm awl"
Don’t be in a hurry to go.
The great,busy West has inducements,’
And so has the busiest mart;
But wealth is not made In a. dayboys—
Don’t be-in a hurrry to start!
The hankers and brokers are wealthy;
They take iu their thousands or so!
Ah, think of the frauds and deceptions!—
Don’t be inTt hurry to go!
The farm is the safest and surest,
The orchards are loaded to-day;
You’re free as the air of the mountains,'
And monarch of all you snrvey.
Better stay on the farm a while longer;
Though profit comes in rather slow;
Remember, you’ve nothing to' risk,hoys;
Don’t be in a hurry to go!
A NEW DODGE.
Fifty Thousand Dollars for Furaiture.
A correspondent of the Jonrnal & Mes
senger says, the tax-payers wiil not have to
pay for buildingthe house,but only- for the
furniture, which costs less than $56,000.
There are several very serious ebjections
to this new dodge. The city of Atlanta
promised to the Convention and to the Leg-
islatarethatnnder . no circumstances was
the State to be at any expense for a Capitol
for ten years; and now they ask for fifty
thousand dollars for furniture. Secondly,
they have moved all the furniture from the
Capitol in Millidgcville to Atlanta;therefore
they did not need any new furniture; and,
thirdly, have never ordered any new for-
niture. If the people of Atlanta or Gov.
Bnllock have ordered it without any au
thority, let them pay for it. By looking at
the Comptroller’s report the tax-payers
will see several considerable sums drawn
for moving tha furniture from Milledgeville
to Atlanta. This furniture was thought
good enough for the State when it was
much richer than it is -now,and it is still
good enough for honest people. We hope
the Legislature will not permit the peop e
of Atlanta to bay further at discre
tion, and draw on the State to foot the
bills.
A Baker County Hole Trader Swindled Oat
of Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars:
A man from Newton,Baker county, was
swindled out f $500 by a very common
“little game,” on Saturday afternoon. It
‘“iTTrem
that Mr. Thrasher, the victim,
had come to Macon with the amount above
named for the purpose of buying males,and
falling in with a very plausable, smooth
spoken person, a stranger like himself, the
two were around a good deal during the
day seeing the rights. About 6 p. m. tho
sharper came to him in a great hurry, with
a check on the National Bank of Macon for
$1,850, and saying he was in pressing need
of the money just then—asked Mr. T. to
lat him have $500 on it until he could See
same of the bank officials^nd make arrange
ments to have it cashed, proposing to leave
it,meanwhile,in Mr. T-’s hands. To this
Mr. T. assented,and the rogue hurried off
to see about gstting into the bank. Of
course that was the last of him, and of
course the check was worthless, and Mr. T.
lost bis money. It is supposed the thief
left on the Savannah train at 6:20.—
Macon Mess.
How to Retain Youth.
It is a matter of no little concern, says
an Exchange among men—and women,too
—to preserve the bloom and freshness of
their youth. Cosmetics, - plumpers, and the
whole offspring of artifice and deception
are resorted to, in the effort to stay the fur
rowing ploughshare of time. External
appliances cannot reach or rejuvinate the
decaying spirits of the man or woman who
willfully amd maliciously perpetrated a glar
ing wrong on a fellow creature. Something
must he done to quicken the vitality of the
“inner man,” If you would preserve the
ruddy glow of health and' rotnnd form of
youth. An easy conscience is the alt po
tent remedy for that -elasticity of spirit
which give color and beauty to the human
face,and activity and energy to the physi
cal body. Hear an old man sing:
They tell me I am handsome yet,
And all the ladies say
“Do look at him! the dear old man
Grows younger avery day.”
And when each friend asks, Atyonr
How came yon free from ills?”
Iajways answer “In my yonth
I paid my printer’sbill.”s
Aot Wisely if You Would Do
Well.—“Once upon a time” a certain
man was granted all he might be able to
cany across the seain-^great ship.. lie
employed laborers and loaded his ship with
costly merchandise to its- utmost capacity.
He set sail with fond anticipations'. .of the
great wealth he was about to possess. Be
fore tho voyage was ended he realized his
folly.—Hunger came and would not be ap
peased with hope of future feasting, or
heaps of riohes. Fortunately,a provision
ladsa Tessel was met, and onr avaricious
man was but too glad , to exchange half his
wealth for ship stores. This' still left him
half, after all the pangs of hanger and
trouble of loading and unloading. But,hold.
He was only entitled to what he. carried
across, and of coarse had to render an ac
count of what betook away, and did not
carry aeross^o this took the other half he
had left.
Moral.—-Plant all cotton^tarve and
stint through the .working season and then
give your cotton crop to pay for the corn
you nave used and wiU need until you
make-another crop.—Columbus Sun.
*S-The Bev. Mr. Murray, a young man
recently settled over the park street Church
ill Boston, startled his staid parishioners the
other Sunday by inserting a petition in
prayer that the lord would also “bless those
middle-aged females whose youthful hopes
had been disappointed.”
•a-Mr. Mantou Marble has bought out
all the other owners of the FVorM news
paper, and is now its sole proprietor. The
prica $100,000, exclusive of any real estate.
Washington City^D. C, 1
Tuesday,Feb. 2nd 1869. f
Washington is really dull; and every body
dyand everything has^ind seems to wear
a& air of mehmcholly. The excitement of
the war,and the late Presidential elections
have, from titclaws of gravitation, subsided
into a staled serenity. The “truly loyal”
say that the ‘-Nation m safe” provided,
meral Grant does not go hade on
them. It may be, that the melancholic sx-
pression of things about Washington results
from a lurking reflection that - General
Grant, as the Chief Executive of the Be-
public, will not -prove as Badical as the
party which nominated him. Such, however,
is the depression here from seme cause, that
every effort to get -up even a grand national
inauguration ball has failed mo$t signally.
The city is hy no means as fall of transient
Visitors add office hunters 1 as might he ex
pected.. Visitors from the “Beconstructed
South,” are few and transitory; and office
seekers meet with no encouragement from
GeneraTGrint.- Society in Washington is
only the sample of the people—the politics
andthepartyit represents.'; - .
The society of Wasbingten',Philadelphia,
New-York, and Boston, improvedhy mod
em habits at d customs—renders the condi
tion of things in these rides not unlike
Paris just proceeding the Freneh Devolu
tion. ’Old things hare passed away, and
all things have been changed to suit the Pu
ritan idea of morality, religion and govern
ment. The charge of disloyality Earing
more than once been made, I am Admon
ished to desist from farther comment on
this line.:
The ease of Geoigia is vet on the Badi
cal gridiron. I do not believe that Congress
ever intended to interfere with the present
State Government ofGcorgia. An indi
vidual hy the mrate of Bullock who is in
the habit of drawing drafts for large sums
of money—and signing himself “ Covemor"
of Georgia—is really the cause of all the
trouble and annoyance Inflicted on the peo
ple of Georgia at this time. This fellow Bul
lock came to Washington at the meeting of
Congress in December 1868, and haring
several hnndred thousand dollars of Geoigia
bonds in his possessiin, which were negotia
ble at any time) in conjunction with his
friend Foster Bloggett,-who is still here; he
soon arranged for the introduction of sever
al bonds before Congress, each, looking to
the disruption •• of the present State Gov
ernment of Georgia. The whole object was
then to alarm the people and the Legisla
ture of Georgia, and force the' Legislate#
to reseat the- negro ’ members; that
done, that is the negroes reseated, Congress
wonld then pay simply a resolution' requir
ing the test oath taken by each member of
the Legislature; and Messrs. Hill and Mil-
ler r haring already been rejected by there-
port of the Senate Judiciary Committee,the
Legislature thusywryfwfby the test oath
the election of Senators wonld take place,
resulting of course in the election of Foster
Blodgett and Joseph E. Brown. With
Blodgett and Brown in the U. S. Sen
and Bullock backed and sustained by a lest
oath Legislature, the carpet-baggers and
scalawags really anticipated a- gdbd time.
But unfortunately the blnnderbnss of the
State Treasurer, has knocked np the Bol-
loek^md his friends in Washington say—
that he is now a dead cock, as well as a
bullock.
Diamond Cut Diamond.—The Presi
dent is importuned to pardon one Blake, of
New Jersey,’sentenced to ten years’impris
onment for having sold a ten-dollar conn*
forfeit United States note to another man.
Blake was a detective; the man he sold the
' ' also a detective. Each sus-
Such men os Fessenden and Trhmhnff of
the Senate, Bingham and Poland of- the
House say of Bnlloek’s financial -operation
with the fourth national bank of New York
—what Sir Walter Scott said of the leading
character in the'jday of Macbeth; that he
is Like Banque's murderer; there is blood
on his face; as well as upon the rowels of
his spurs; and the rides of his over ridden
horse.” Your correspondent may be mis
taken in his conjectures, but he is firmly of
the opinion that Congress never seriously
contemplated any farther legislation rela
tive to the state of Georgia. It is a well
known fact that Gen. Grant is most em
phatically opposed to interferring with
Georgia in any way. Gen. Grant is mnch
stronger than his party and his simple Irish
or opinion in any matter of State polity is
more potent with Congress than all the
Bollock’s that ever drew a draft or carried
a carpet-bag. It is also a well known fact—
that to “Reconstruct Reconstruction” in
Georgia—would be a confession to the
world that “reconstruction’’ was a - failure.
This wonld be an acknowledgment that the
pride of party will not tolerate. If Con
gress therefore, realy intended to pass eith
er of the four -Georgia bills already .intro
duced, the time has been ample and the
pretexts more than sufficient; consequently
we argne, that everything that has been
said and done by Bollock’s retainers in Con
gress, was designed simply to alarm and in
timidate the Georgia Legislature. A resolu
tion was offered a few. days ago by Mr.
Payne of the House, enquireing by what
authority the state of Georgia was represt-
cd on that flour. This resolution produc
ed quite a flutter amongst the Georgia dele
gation, and forthwith—letters and telegrams
were started for the Georgia Legislators
to do something. It is to be hoped how
ever that the Legislature will pay' no further
attention to Congress—and address them
selves to the care of the funds of the State,-
and depletion of all Bullocks, threatened
with greenback apoplexy, and other carpet-
hay disorders.
General P. M. B. Young—the represen
tation-of tho 7th distriot of Georgia, is aot
only the best looking man in Congress, bat
Lam satisfied that he is the best Southern
man, by large odds in either branch of the
Federal Legislature. General Young is
proverbial for his attention to business,andis
ever watchful of every interest of Georgia,
His great energy and; cealeis ■ attention to
his duties, nnited with his popularity and
urbanity of manner; of necessity, makes
him a most cfficcnt member of Congress.
No Geergiau or other citizen of the
South visiting Washington, will blush to
see Gen. P.’S. B. Young representing a
white constituency of a Southern State. He
served the people of Georgia most faith
fully and gallantly for four years, wh;n
confronted day hy day with the missiles of
death, is he not competent to fill the post
he now occnpies ? We ansiror most un
questionably.
The weather for the last twenty days has
been almost like May in a Southern clime.
But alas,alas, this goodly city, Washington,
is indeed “a sterile promontory, and. this
brave o’erhanging firmament, the air, this
majestical root, fretted with golden fire, a
foul and pestilent congregation of vapoore;
whom man delighteh not nor” woman nei
ther. Banquo.
note to v™ —™ -. .
pected the other. thougli neither thought
the other was a detective. Blake sold the
note in order to pat up a job ou the mau
who bought it, in order to confirm his be
lief that he was a counterfeiter, instead of
which the man arrested Blake. .On Blake’s
person was found a rebel pass, which so in-
censed the truly loyal heart of Judge Field,
of New Jersey, that, though Blake pleaded
guilty, he gave him ten years. It turns
out that Blake was adetective of Stanton,
a Union' spy commissioned to enter Bich-
mond, and for that purpose got the pass in
question. The jury which was to have
tried him, had he not pleaded guilty, all re
quest.his pardon. ■ Blake pleaded guilty on
the recommendation of a counsel who took
all his money and promised to get him off
easy; but the unexplained rebel pass settled
the business with Judge Field, and he was
sentenced ten years for selling a detective
a bad bill in order, to trap him and getting
trapsd himself. He has served four and a
half years of the term already.:—W. 7.
World.
GONE OVER.
A Distinguished Convert, to the Catholic
_ Church.
The London correspondent of New York
Times writes as follows:
. I am inclined to think that the real sen
sation of the week has been the news that
the Marqnis of Bute has tnrned Papist —
This. youDg man, just come of age, with
three hnndred. thousand pounds a year and
a peerage, has gone over to Borne.
Forty years ago there was one Catholic
priest in England who had been a clergy
man in the Established Cnureb—the Hon.
and Rev 1 . .George Spencer. Now there are
forty such priests in ®this archdiocese of
of Westminister, and about two hundred in
the - country. Lay converts are probably in
proportion. The returns the last year in
the metropolis are2,200, and the con—or
per—-verts are mostly from the upper or
middle ranks of society.
. GoosaBiver.—The appropriation made
by the Legislature S3,333,33 is not for a
resurvey of the Coosa river bnt for the sur
vey and location of a canal from the Stair
case falls above Wethmpka on said river,to
a point somewhere below Wetnmpka. The
proposed canal, it is said, will be 15 or 17
miles in length, .and if the practicability of
the. enterprise should be demonstrated, the
series of falls just above Wetumpka,which
offer the most formidable obstacles in the
navigation of said stream,can. be success
fully avoided by the construction of a ca
nal across the low country,through which
thesurvey will‘he made. The. effective
damming and locking of the falls referred
to present the most serious difficulties in
the way of rendering the Coosa navigable
and could a canal be made that .would cir
cumvent these difficulties^ that loag and
continuously flowing river, with its fine wa
ter power, would be rendered snbservent to
the wants and necessities of the. people of
the region through which it passes.—Jfont.
JW-.
The Chain GaNO Tie the Overseer
ABB Eicafk.—The entire chain griig yes
terday escaped and at last accounts are at
liberty. They were working on tho road to
the Chattahoochee Race Course, between
the double branches. The manner of escape
m told, one negro first jumped on Cook, the
others then pitched in, took his revolver
away, led Cook to the woods, tied his hands
behind him with his pistol beltand left him
on the ground face downward. Cook by
rolling managed to get pu and went to a
blacksmith’s shop, where he was untied.
There were five negroes not nine, on the
gang. The names of the prisoners escaped
were Henry Walton, Joseph Barfield, Ar
thur Peterson, William amd Henry Bed
ding.— Columbus Sun 30 th.
Another Eutaw Affair.
“Loll”
of the Laws.
From tha Gadsden Times.
We hear it stated that the “loti” Circuit
Clerk of Calhoun Connty, has had seven
or eight respectable young men from about
Alexandria arrested and held over in
bonds of $1,000 each to answer at the
next term of the Circuit Conrt of that
Connty, on a charge of assauL and battery,
with intent to kill. From all we can learn,
the Circuit Clerk. was charged with en
couraging negroes to bring suits against
white men, and that for this ho was visited
hy unknown persons and-warned to discon
tinue such practice. That he is alive to
day, is evidence that they, did not intend
to kill him. The high ‘ character of the
young men charged in the indictment, is
guarantee of their entire innocence.
HcW Radical “Petitions” are ManoAe>
tured.
The Augusta Chronicle it- Seniinel pub
lishes the names of all the twenty-eight
hundred so-called citizens of Augusta, who
petitioned Congress to put Georgia hack
under military government, and whose peti
tion Mr. Summer lately presented to the
Senate. Nearly all the names were signed
with a X, and tho list did not contain the
names of tho prominent white Radicals of
Angnsto. Very few of the petitioners
were known; the Chronicle exp resses the
opinion that less than two hundred of the
twenty-six or twenty-seven hundred ne
groes, whose names appear on the petition,
are residents of Augusta, or known there.
The whole thing appears to have heen a
fraud of the most infamous character—
such a one as only the “Little Perjurer”
could have conceived and carried out—
-Vacon Mess.
frirCol. H. T. McDowell, of Savannah,
his been appointed Commissioner of the
United States Court of Claims.
■o.w to Kill a Town.
A late number-of tho Dubuque Herald
has the following excellent suggestions:
It you wish to kill off a town, put up
no more buildings than you are obliged to
occupy yourself. If you should acciden
tally have arr empty building, and any one
should want to rent it, ask about three
times its actual value. Look at every new
comer with a scowl. Turn a cold shoulder
to every business man and mechanic who
seeks a home among you. Go abroad for
wares rather than purchase of your own
merchants and manufacturers at the lame
prices. Refuse to advertise, so that -per-
sons at a distance will not know that inj
business is being done in yonr eity. a
prompt and close observance of these rules
will ruin any town in two years.
S«5“Gran! will teuder his resignation M
General of the army, to President Johneoa,
the day after the electoral vote is so anted
and declared.
•9*The New Y«
that the Tribune / '
the life of Mr. Or
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